Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
Lee Bowman: Philip Booth
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Quotes
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Philip Booth : Very romantic
Margot Sherwood Merrick : Madly romantic. It was raining. Spring rain turning the pavement blue. I adore rain.
Philip Booth : I detest it. It gives me head colds. Furthermore, if it was so romantic, why did you leave him?
Margot Sherwood Merrick : It stopped raining.
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Philip Booth : You can't go on being tied to a husband who doesn't even care enough to want to see you.
Margot Sherwood Merrick : Oh, but he does, I'm sure of it.
Philip Booth : Well, he sure has a funny way of showing it. Never seeing you all year. Wandering around foreign countries.
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Philip Booth : I can't understand it. How could you marry a man that none of us has ever seen? That you didn't even know anything about? That nobody ever heard of? Just like that - boom! And you're Mrs. Tony Merrick.
Margot Sherwood Merrick : I don't understand myself some times. But there I was, alone, in Rio, in April.
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Vicky Sherwood : He's so attentive. Don't you think he's sweet?
Philip Booth : [Mumbling] I don't see anything sweet about him. I wish I had stayed in Connecticut.
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Philip Booth : Now this isn't a time for flippancy, Thompson. I've been all over it legally, and you've simply got to marry her.
Jeff Thompson : Oh, I have huh?
Philip Booth : Yeah, so she can divorce you.
Jeff Thompson : And marry you?
Philip Booth : Right!
Jeff Thompson : That makes me the middle man, and I'm afraid I don't just fancy myself as the middle man.
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Philip Booth : If you don't mind my saying so, Thompson, I'm a little amazed that you're arguing about all this.
Jeff Thompson : Good!. Everybody should be amazed regularly, every three months. People aren't amazed nearly enough.
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Philip Booth : Man to man, Thompson, will you do the decent thing?
Jeff Thompson : Man to man, Booth, no!
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Jeff Thompson : But don't think that just because you help me get rid of my cold that I'm gonna marry Margot.
Philip Booth : But you got to, Jeff. You got to, Jeff, for the sake of the children.
Jeff Thompson : What children?
Philip Booth : My children. Don't you see? After I get married I want to have three children.
Jeff Thompson : Oh.
Philip Booth : Two boys and a girl. Anthony, Andrew and Agnes.
Jeff Thompson : Ah, that's nice. That's very nice. They're pretty names too.
Philip Booth : So, you see, Jeff, it's not as though I were asking you for myself, or Margot. It's for the kids.
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Jeff Thompson : Well, then, the only question is, will I or will I not marry the woman you love?
Philip Booth : That's the question, Thompson.
Jeff Thompson : Just call me buddy, buddy.
Philip Booth : All right, buddy, buddy. Will you? For the sake of the children?
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Philip Booth : You're the party of the first part, Thompson.
Jeff Thompson : Hmm? Oh, yeah, yeah, I know - party of the first part.
Philip Booth : And you're the party of the second part, darling.
Jeff Thompson : And you're the party of the third part.
Philip Booth : There is no party of the third part.
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Philip Booth : Now then, I'm not sure about clause nine.
Jeff Thompson : Well, just make it "Clause 9, whereas."
Philip Booth : Whereas what?
Jeff Thompson : Just 'whereas." Can't I have just one clause my way?